Leadership Quotes About Being A True Leader And Giving The Example

What you do has far greater impact than what you say. Steven R. Covey

Good leaders see more in people than people see in themselves. Mark Sanborn

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan. Jason Fried

That one can truly manage other people is by no means adequately proven. But one can always manage one’s self. Indeed, executives who do not manage themselves for effectiveness cannot possibly expect to manage their associates and subordinates. Management is largely by example. Peter F. Drucker

Disagreement, especially if forced to be reasoned, thought through, documented, is the most effective stimulus we know. Peter F. Drucker

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present. James Kouzes and Barry Posner

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. Pete Hoekstra

Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it. Thomas Friedman

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t. Jack Ma (alibaba.com)

It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate. Robert Greene

Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations. John Seaman Garns

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them. Warren Bennis

Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama 

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. John Kenneth Galbraith

True leadership lies in guiding others to success–in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. Bill Owens

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. Henry David Thoreau

It’s impossible to engage people when you’re not engaged yourself, and if you’re not engaged then why should they be. Gordon Tredgold

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippmann

Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions. Tony Robbins

To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. Pat Riley

True leaders don’t give consoling answers, they take constructive actions. Amit Kalantri

A true leader leads by empowering not by enslaving. Debasish Mridha

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